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420everytime t1_j8wkjqr wrote

Reply to comment by apriljeangibbs in [OC] Which Political Groups did Former FTX Executives Donate to? by coingecko

Not really you have to run in one of those two parties for any real chance of being elected.

People like Bernie sanders say they are democratic socialists but run as a democrat while people like Rand Paul say their are libertarians but run as republicans.

American libertarianism is just another form of conservatism. American libertarians don’t support actual libertarian policies like open borders or making all highways toll roads

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apriljeangibbs t1_j8wknxz wrote

Ok so no one else understands what groups are being referred to in this chart?

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AdminsAreLazyID10TS t1_j8wm5ti wrote

No. It's poorly sourced nonsense from someone that doesn't know even know what liberal means.

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vonstubbins t1_j8wxt2h wrote

That's debateable. Friedman had deeply liberal beliefs and openely talked about donating to groups with very liberal values.

The chart don't represent political parties at all, just the ideological leanings of the groups they donated to.

Edit: in fact, I'm pretty certain most people are misunderstanding what this shows. They're trying to make it sound like the money either went to the Democrats or the Republicans. That data will be in there, but they'll be in there alongside organisations like the ACLU.

Groups like this. https://www.startguide.org/orgs/orgs00.html

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AdminsAreLazyID10TS t1_j90lor9 wrote

I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt in that regard, but many of those groups aren't "liberal" so much as they are socially progressive or charitable.

It's especially suspicious in that they have separated "liberal" from "Democratic" and "Republican" party and candidate giving specifically, a detail that you will see with a brief glance through the comments has escaped most of the great minds of Reddit. Especially especially because so many political parties outside the US that broadly share those views simply go by the Liberal Party.

The inescapable conclusion is that OP either has a clear agenda and knowledge and has phrased his post deliberately misleadingly or they simply have an extremely inaccurate definition of liberal... and an agenda.

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420everytime t1_j8wlj2k wrote

FTX bought the whole Government that would in both parties.

Crypto is regulated as a commodity under the agriculture committee, so the politicians FTX got the closest with were those on the agriculture committee.

Specifically so when his Ponzi scheme blew up he would get favorable treatment regardless of who's in office

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apriljeangibbs t1_j8wlqtt wrote

So the liberal/conservative groups on this chart is the agriculture committee?

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420everytime t1_j8wma3r wrote

A significant amount yes.

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apriljeangibbs t1_j8wmdtm wrote

The committee counts as both?

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420everytime t1_j8wqiiq wrote

Yes. All committees have members of both parties usually with the party in majority running the committees

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apriljeangibbs t1_j8wqpl5 wrote

So this graph would divide up the number of members in each party on the committee by how much was donated to them and apply it that way?

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BrandenburgForevor t1_j8wxnmf wrote

That's not it, it's that the terms they are using are intentionally useless and vague.

You're not supposed to understand what they really mean

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